We have no clinical test to assess our immune system status. The case for an immunome erictopol.substack.com/p/why-we-nee...
How can we know the primacy of our immune response for health yet be unable to measure it?
The @nytimes.com has really done it this time. Publishing a piece on the lab leak theory is just terrible editorial judgment. Did they talk to ANY of their science reporters? Talk to anyone who works on viral emergence & origins? This is clickbait for the Fauci hearings this week. It is disgusting.
Initial NIAID FY24 paylines were 8%, final paylines just released at 10%. At 8%, it takes 20 applications to reach an 80% chance of at least one being funded; at 10%, this only drops to 16 apps. There are 15 app cycles in a 5-year R01. Most PIs say it takes 2 R01s to sustain a medium-sized lab. 🫠
Really good piece explaining why this is a problem, and why it’s an especially, if not uniquely, American one.
Movement of cows in the US is massive, Shweta Bansal & Colleen Webb write for @statnews.bsky.social. Stopping spread of diseases like #H5N1 #birdflu in cattle requires much more information about how & where that's happening. www.statnews.com/2024/05/07/t...
Managing diseases in livestock in a country the size of the U.S. is a huge challenge due to the frequent and extensive movement of animals across the nation. That means local animal disease problems q...
I've got a fully funded, 4-year PhD position available to work on virus-bacteria interactions in soils. Part of the GenerationResearch scheme at York aimed at widening access to postgrad research. Please share! generationresearch.ac.uk/phd_proposal...
I learned this the hard way.
The thread I didn’t know I needed today 😜
My experience w bears v men outdoors: -Bears never ask me to smile. -When I make noise or say “no bear”, the bear leaves -The bear&I mutually agree to just silently go our separate ways -Bears don’t performatively carry sidearms on trails -Bears understand the meaning of avoiding eye contact
Also easier to lift once they lose mobility. 😢